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Author(s): Laura Packard Tucker, Amy Dworsky, Molly Van Drunen
Organization: Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Publication Date: 2020
Despite remarkable resilience and high aspirations, many youth in foster care still struggle to complete their education, secure steady employment, build connections with supportive adults, develop critical life skills, and remain stably housed. One manifestation of the challenges these young people face is a high rate of homelessness.
The Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) developed and implemented the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP...
Author(s): Amy Dworsky, Elissa Gitlow, Beth Horwitz, Gina M. Samuels
Publication Date: 2019
A high percentage of young people experiencing homelessness have been in foster care. However, not all of these are young people who “aged out.” Rather, some are young people who exited foster care through reunification and adoption. This brief highlights actions that child welfare systems can take to prevent young people who have experienced foster care from becoming homeless, regardless of how they exited. This is the seventh in a series of bri...
Author(s): Amy Dworsky, Elissa Gitlow, Kristen Ethier
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2018
In January 2015, the Home Visiting Task Force, a standing committee of the Illinois Early Learning Council, established a Home Visiting-Child Welfare Sub-Committee to design and implement a Home Visiting Pilot Program that would serve pregnant or parenting youth in foster care. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services contracted with Chapin Hall to conduct an implementation and outcome evaluation of the program. This report present...
Author(s): Amy Dworsky, Elissa Gitlow, Kristen Ethier
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2018
In January 2015, the Home Visiting Task Force, a standing committee of the Illinois Early Learning Council, established a Home Visiting-Child Welfare Sub-Committee to design and implement a Home Visiting Pilot Program that would serve pregnant or parenting youth in foster care. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services contracted with Chapin Hall to conduct an implementation and outcome evaluation of the program. This report present...
Author(s): Susanna R. Curry, Matthew Morton, Jennifer L. Matjasko, Amy Dworsky, Gina M. Samuels, David Schlueter
Publication Date: 2017
Youth homelessness is a problem characterized by high levels of vulnerability. The extent to which couch surfing — moving from one temporary housing arrangement to another — is part of youth homelessness is not well understood. Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count, a national research initiative, involves a multicomponent approach to studying youth homelessness. This study reports emerging findings regarding couch surfing and homelessness primaril...
Author(s): Mark Courtney, Amy Dworsky
Publication Date: 2006
A series of reports is based on a longitudinal study of Wisconsin’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Chapin Hall examined the experiences of a representative sample of 1,075 Milwaukee County families that sought assistance from the TANF program between March and August 1999. The reports in this series are based on survey data that were collected at three points in time and administrative data from two state agencies. The re...
Author(s): Amy Dworsky, Mark E. Courtney
Publication Date: 2009
Existing research indicates that homelessness is a serious problem among young people ageing out of foster care. However, these studies have not attempted to identify potential risk or protective factors that might affect the likelihood of becoming homeless during the transition to adulthood. This paper, using data from a longitudinal study, examined both the occurrence and predictors of homelessness among a sample of young people from three Midw...
Author(s): Amy Dworsky
Publication Date: 2010
While many young people depend on parental financial and emotional support well past the age of 18, those who are homeless must make the transition to adulthood without that support. This article discusses the needs of homeless youth as they transition to adulthood. It then describes three housing-based independent living programs designed to address these needs, Lighthouse Youth Services Independent Living Program in Cincinnati, Teen Living Prog...
Author(s): Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky, JoAnn S. Lee, Melissa Raap
Publication Date: 2010
For most young people, the transition to adulthood is a gradual process (Furstenberg, Rumbaut & Settersten, 2005). Many continue to receive financial and emotional support from their parents or other family members well past age 18. This is in stark contrast to the situation confronting youth in foster care. Too old for the child welfare system but often not yet prepared to live as independent young adults, the approximately 29,500 foster...